Tag Archives: Lu Xun

Video on Kong Yiji

Posted on February 5, 2010 by admin

Kong Yiji is one of my favorite stories from Lu Xun’s Nahan. Here is a video acting out the story of Kong Yiji. It’s useful for practicing with your listening skills. Read the story, and then listen to the video without the text in front of you and repeat until you’re understanding the whole video. Continue reading →

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Reading the Father of Modern Chinese Literature – Lǔ Xùn’s Nàhǎn

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

Abstract To read foreign literature in the original language is the ultimate goal for many foreign language students.  Requiring knowledge of a few thousands of characters for reading Chinese literature, the challenge is particularly immense for students of Chinese.  Lu … Continue reading →

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MP3 files available

Posted on January 13, 2010 by admin

After a lot of hard work, the audio files are available online.  We have made a discount of 50% for all our learning aides for orders over $9.99.  The idea is to encourage our readers to use these extra resources … Continue reading →

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TheChinaBeat.org

Posted on December 1, 2009 by admin

If you are looking for some good information about recent events in China and Chinese history, check out this website.  We’ve sent a review copy to them and will post it here once they have it up. She just finished … Continue reading →

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FINALLY A BOOK TO HELP STUDENTS READ ORIGINAL CHINESE LITERATURE

Posted on October 15, 2009 by admin

October 15, 2009 – – Author, Kevin Nadolny, has published Capturing Chinese: Short Stories From Lu Xun’s Nahan, an original approach to help students break into reading Chinese literature without the usual frustration of looking up obscure characters, misunderstanding historical … Continue reading →

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Listen to the English Version of Lu Xun’s Stories

Posted on October 11, 2009 by admin

Check out this MP3 of Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary available for free download from audible.com. (Download Mp3 here)  Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang translated Lu Xun’s stories from Chinese to English and here is a reading of their Selected … Continue reading →

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An introduction to Lu Xun

Posted on September 30, 2009 by admin

As additional Chinese practice while reading Capturing Chinese: Short Stories from Lu Xun’s Nahan, it might be helpful to watch this video introducing Lu Xun.  Read the introduction in Capturing Chinese and read 呐喊－自序 and then watch this video.  Some … Continue reading →

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